God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually. When Paul talked about making his body his slave, so that after having preached to others he himself would not be disqualified, he was not thinking about physical disqualification, but spiritual. He knew well that physical softness inevitably leads to spiritual softness. When the body is pampered and indulged, the instincts and passions of the body tend to get the upper hand and dominate our thoughts and actions. We tend to do not what we should do, but what we want to do, as we follow the craving of our sinful nature.
Hardly anyone experiences the crush of real guilt! We have failed to see that what usually passes for guilt is in fact just more sin, because it is the bad feeling we have, not from our failure to trust God’s promises but from our failure to preserve our image as cool, self-sufficient people. Most of what passes for guilt feelings is an expression of pride. We do something impulsive that hurts someone and feel remorse. But does our remorse come from a deep spiritual grief that we have despised God by not trusting His promises and not waiting for His wisdom and help? Or does it more often come from the fact that we did not preserve our image as cool and self-sufficient? Real guilt is very rare!
Grated romano or parmesan cheese (use the real thing, not the stuff in the cardboard containers)
1/2
ts
Crushed garlic (fresh garlic)
1/4
c
Diced fresh parsley
Olive oil
1/4
c
Olive oil
2
Garlic cloves, crushed
1
cn
(large 28 ounce) crushed tomatoes
INSTRUCTIONS
MEATBALLS
TOMATO SAUCE
Meatballs: 1 1/2 cups diced white bread soaked in a mixture of one egg and
1/3 cup milk for 15 minutes. Mash bread lightly and add to 1 lb. ground
beef. To this add 1/2 cup grated romano or parmesan cheese (use the real
thing, not the stuff in the cardboard containers), 1/2 teaspoon crushed
garlic (fresh garlic), and 1/4 cup diced fresh parsley. Mix all together
and form small balls. Heat a bit of olive oil in a pan and lightly brown
meatballs. Add meatballs to tomato sauce and simmer 45 minutes or longer.
Tomato Sauce: Saute garlic in olive oil till lightly colored but not
browned. Add tomatoes and 1 can water. Then add 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh
parsley, 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh basil (if substituting dried basil use
1 teaspoon only) and pepper to taste. Simmer for 1 hour before adding
meatballs. (Sauce can be made ahead and reheated.)
Serve meatballs and tomato sauce over pasta of your choice.
We used some of the meatballs/sauce we had left over to make hot meatball
sandwiches topped with mozzarella cheese - yum!
Posted to EAT-L Digest 21 Feb 97 by Felicia Pickering
<MNHAN063@SIVM.SI.EDU> on Feb 21, 1997.
A Message from our Provider:
“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. #C.S. Lewis”
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